wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

Considering there have been a handful of "AI" products that really were just "remote controlled/monitored by Indian workers"... (see Amazon automaic grocery store, college campus meal delivery drones)

India becomes a world power when everyone finds out that all the AI controlled drones are really just a bunch of Indian guys teleworking.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He did the soundtrack for these super hero films: 1989 Batman, 1992 Batman Returns, 2002 Spider-Man, 2003 Hulk, 2004 Spider-Man 2, 2012 Hitchcock, 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2017 Justice League, 2022 Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Danny_Elfman

Not going to take the time to go through his TV work, sorry. He's a lot more prolific than I realized!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Where have you guys been? Half Life 3 was confirmed December 13, 2007.

I'm sure it's coming any day now.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They have been "working" on Half Life 3 for over a decade, with many promising leads found through datamining things left in other source games over that time. There is almost always absurd levels of speculation over the smallest crumbs of datamined material.

For example, there's been an unfinished NPC worked on for Episode 3 left in Half Life 2 that was first shown in a tech demo in 2006, literally prefixed with "Ep3_" in the code. It's been around for 18 years and the most that was used from it was graphics for the gels in Portal 2, vs all of the speculated things about it.

The recent documentary they released had what was effectively a post-mortem section where they talked about why Episode 3/Half Life 3 never came out.

I can see why you might think that their new controller and headset might be enough of a game changer that they feel like making 3 is worth it again, but the overall feeling I've gotten from them from following all of this closely since the pre-Orange Box days is that: 3 isn't happening due to the immense pressure and expectations that have built up over the many years people have been waiting. Maybe we get Alyx 2 or some other spin off, but the only thing they'd accomplish with 3 at this point is disappointing a wide variety of people with countless conflicting expectations.

At the very least you also have to contend with "Valve Time". What would take a normal studio a year takes them four due to their obsession with polishing everything. Team Fortress 2 started development in 1998 and didn't release for 9 years.

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited to see where they go next, and I hope this means more than a voice actor sending a fun new years message. But you need to understand that "definitive evidence" of 3 coming based off datamined material has been floating around for 15+ years now.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

If you can, I highly suggest buying a pack of cheap cable clips and velcro ties off amazon and trying to route your cables nicely/out the way.

My little one is considerably less furry and requires regular diaper changes, but having the cables out of the way and running more tightly against things has really helped keep accidents from happening due to curious hands.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

That means that roughly 20% arent. That's 1 in 5, and that's pretty ridiculous.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If your lemmy instance cares about that sort of language, please join a new one. The only instances I'm aware of that care about harsh language are .ml (censors bitch and some other curses) and .world (regularly deletes stuff celebrating the UHC CEO's murder).

Otherwise, this is lemmy, you aren't on some site that cares about looking friendly and soft for advertisers. Please don't bring that self censorship shit here.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Based off a small technicality with one of the comments in the code. The "function" referenced is actually a macro.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Most people take time off from work after Christmas if they have the ability. That messes with the normal daily schedule and pattern of things they do and when, causing confusion as to what day it is etc.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like I've heard of this somewhere before. Embrace, Engorge, Exsanguinate? Something like that.

I'm not sure I'm far along enough in my content creation journey to make that kind of regular schedule right now. And the sheep were definitely a bad last minute add to fill space.

The Gazette will come like a burglar in the night, when it is least expected or even wanted!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Talking to NPCs and running around takes no energy, and the only way bedtime effects energy level is if you stay up past (I think) midnight.

Plus, almost all the townsfolk are in the bar in the evenings.

It's pretty obviously set up so that you run arpund talking to people once your energy gets too low to work.

Lastly, that "talk to everyone" quest doesn't gate any gameplay content, only social scene content with the people you don't talk to.

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